A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume 1 (of 2): With Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent CharactersMoore, John
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A View of Society and Manners in Italy, Volume 1 (of 2): With Anecdotes Relating to some Eminent Characters
Moore, John
Italy -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Italy -- Social life and customs -- Early works to 1800
although she despised the Confessor as much as he could do, yet she must
take care of her own soul; that not having settled her accounts with
heaven for a considerable time, she was determined not to begin a new
score till the old should be cleared; adding, for her principal reason,
_Patto chiaro, amico caro_.
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
TRANSLATIONS OF THE LATIN AND ITALIAN QUOTATIONS IN THE FIRST VOLUME.
Page
12.
A hundred hours of vexation will not pay one farthing of debt.
19.
Thro’ various hazards, and many cross events.
62.
——What we hear,
With slower passion to the heart proceeds,
Than when an audience views the very deeds.
FRANCIS.
_Ibid._
The business of the _drama_ must appear in action or
description.
FRANCIS.
75.
Like a youthful tree, of growth
Insensible, high shoots his spreading fame.
FRANCIS.
151.
The place intended for the portrait of Marinus Fallierus, who
was beheaded.
244.
——to the woods the wanton hies,
And wishes to be seen before she flies.
DRYDEN.
275.
At length he founded Padua’s happy seat.
DRYDEN.
_Ibid._
Where Aponus first springs in smoky steam,
And full Timavus rolls his nobler stream;
Upon a hill that day, if same be true,
A learned Augur sat the skies to view:
’Tis come, the great event is come (he cry’d)!
Our impious chiefs their wicked war decide.
ROWE.
281.
Whence bull-faced Po adorned with gilded horns,
Than whom no river, thro’ such level meads,
Down to the sea with swifter torrents speeds.
WARTON.
291.
Three brothers, the sons of Maria Theresa, Queen of Bohemia and
Hungary, all of them distinguished by their virtues, and worthy
of so illustrious a mother, were entertained at this inn,
_viz._ Maximilian Arch-Duke of Austria, who actually supped and
passed the night here, on the 30th of May, 1775.
Peter Leopold Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the Emperor Joseph the
Second, the ornament and glory of the age, who dined here the
following day.
That such important events may not be lost in the flight of
time, let this durable monument inform the latest posterity of
the happiness which this inn enjoyed.
301.
The Bononian Academy of arts and sciences, for the general use
of the whole world.
315.
Some are of opinion, that, captivated by the love of power,
and having carefully weighed his own strength and that of his
enemies, he had availed himself of this opportunity of seizing
the supreme authority, which had been his passion from his
early youth.
_Ibid._
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